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Six Things of No Importance
Over at Blowing My Thought Wad, I was tagged by Good Dog to reveal six things of no real importance about myself. These are the rules of this particular tag game and I can tell you now, I’m going to break one of them… (A) Put the link of the person who tagged you on…
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Squawk Like A Pirate
I’ve got mixed feelings about the jail terms and fines passed by the Swedish courts on the operators of the Pirate Bay filesharing setup. I’d have more sympathy over the sentencing if the guys in question weren’t such clanging assholes. Piracy is, by its very definition, a parasitic act, and the successful parasite is the…
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Killing the Joke
I’ve only once given up on a movie and walked out of a cinema in the middle of it, and it was in Las Vegas in 1980. We were backpacking across America from West coast to East, and we were taking full advantage of a cheap room deal and the even cheaper all-you-can-eat buffets in…
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John Garforth
By the miracle of Google (and I can’t for the life of me remember what I was looking for at the time) this morning I discovered this, the personal website of one-time – or, more accurately, four-times – Avengers tie-in writer John Garforth. Garforth wrote four Avengers novels for Panther Books in 1967. Two years…
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Eleventh Hour back in the UK
According to The Guardian, Virgin Media’s Living TV has picked up the first US season of Eleventh Hour for screening from April 8th. The show, from CSI producer Jerry Bruckheimer, has been one of the biggest hits of the US TV season, averaging around 12 million viewers on CBS. The drama stars British actor Rufus…
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Young Sherlock
Happy to see that my old friend Andy Lane is the writer chosen to helm a series of Young Sherlock Holmes adventures approved by the Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. According to the announcement on the United Agents site, “The Colossal Schemes of Baron Maupertuis (is) due to be published in Spring 2010. The…
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David Stockton
Congratulations to David Stockton on winning the American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Award for his work on the Eleventh Hour pilot. From the ASC’s website: “Cinematographers are people with unique abilities who accomplish extraordinary things under challenging circumstances,” said Christina Hendricks who presented the award to Stockton. The other nominees in the television movie/miniseries/pilot…
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Micropayment
The Guardian today quotes Tony Cohen, CEO of Fremantle Media, in a call for a micropayment system to cover the downloading of new and catch-up TV programming. “Cohen, revealing details of Fremantle Media’s submission to the Digital Britain report, said there was a case to look beyond the current charging mechanisms for TV shows on-demand…
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Hey, Look Who We Got
Helen Slater has joined the cast of Medea, my Eleventh Hour season closer that broadcasts on April 2nd. Yes, she was Supergirl, but she’s done loads of other stuff too. I was curious to see how our numbers would look after Thursday night, given that we were up against George Clooney’s return to ER. Which…
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Gallic Noir (2)
Back in June of last year I blogged about the excellent French cops’n’justice show Engrenages. Slick, stylish, seedy, complex, and wonderful to look at, it had been screened in eight subtitled parts on BBC4 and did much to convince me that in the midst of UKTV’s creative meltdown there’s still one channel where you don’t…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
